I think Chelsea Girl sucks apart from "These Days." The music on Desertshore is amazing though. Shame about the singing. All in all, I'll vote Not Crap.

I think Chelsea Girl is as good as anything Nick Drake did--and quite similar in many ways.

The Marble Index and Desertshore are about as good as anything anyone ever did.

Nico is not crap.

Last night, a young gentleman who was trying to make me love him said, when asked about his views on the Velvet Underground:

"Nico sounds like a fucking muppet."

I respectfully disagreed.

VAT A KLAHN.

CREP.

Not Crap. Impossible to explain to those who don't get it.

Marble Index is a phenomenal record.

NOT CRAP.

Nico's life story is the very definition of sadness. There was a very thorough Nico documentary on the BBC, a couple of years back, and John Cale played an incredible rendition of 'Frozen Warnings' on the piano at the end.

Listening to Chelsea Girl right now. So good.
Must get some more records by Nico.

enjoy.

trivia: she gave iggy his first case of the clap.

Iggy also credits her with being a huge artistic inspiration, and has spoken of her with what seems like serious respect. (I read I Need More and Please Kill Me too: "Zhimmy, you must be totally poisoned...") The documentary Nico Icon was well done, and very depressing. Wtf, she gave her teenage son his first shot of heroin?? A haunting voice and powerful mystique, but most of her solo stuff tends to make me want to kill myself. I do like "These Days" and "I'll Keep It With Mine" at times, though.

ctrl-s wrote:Iggy also credits her with being a huge artistic inspiration, and has spoken of her with what seems like serious respect. (I read I Need More and Please Kill Me too: "Zhimmy, you must be totally poisoned...") The documentary Nico Icon was well done, and very depressing. Wtf, she gave her teenage son his first shot of heroin?? A haunting voice and powerful mystique, but most of her solo stuff tends to make me want to kill myself. I do like "These Days" and "I'll Keep It With Mine" at times, though.

you don't know how bad nico can be. i like(d) "these days" 'til i had to sit through mates of state gaying all over it.